Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Proto Sinanju was created by Anaheim Electronics to aid in development of the new NT-D System. The resulting data was used by Anaheim to complete the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam. In U.C. 0094, the Sinanju was stolen (disguised as a transfer) by the remnants of Neo Zeon, "The Sleeves", slightly modified and used as the personal machine of their leader, Full Frontal.

*The MSN-06 SInanju was awesome, but this proto version is equally awesome! Definitely worth considering a custom build for this guy. *

Image from A.E.Media (The image is a fanart, and not an official image)

Grandma-inspired "Basama Robo" to be featured on T-shirts, hiking flags

Kunio Okawara, the mechanical designer of many Gundam projects including the first television anime series, has created a robot mascot character for Minami Uonuma City in Niigata Prefecture.

The mascot's name is Basama Robo (which comes from the word "Baba-sama," meaning old lady), and when seen from the bottom, the robot has a heart shape. (Okawara's Zeong mobile suit design from the first Gundam anime also shares a similar silhouette.) The robot's model name is Ba-634, named because the height of the Sakatoyama mountain in the city is 634 meters (2,080 feet) tall.

Basama Robo's ultimate weapon is kirizai, a local specialty food made up of minced pickled vegetables and fermented soybeans (natto). When Basama's grandchild Abe-chan came home from school one day hungry, Basama had not done the shopping, and so she made kirizai from leftovers. Even though her grandchild complained there was no meat in the dish, he ate all of the kirizai in the blink of an eye. Whenever anyone eats Basama's kirizai, they finish smiling.